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JetBlue and Jet Airways have formulated an alliance to provide new travel options for passengers looking to fly between India and the U.S. "This partnership will enable us to tap into JetBlue's impressive network out of New York, thus offering a seamless travel experience between India and several additional destinations in the U.S.," said Jet Airways Chief Commercial Officer Sudheer Raghavan.

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Jet Airways plans to merge its two low-cost subsidiaries, JetLite and JetKonnect, on Sunday. The merged airlines will fly under the JetKonnect name. "We thought it best to consolidate our product in the low-fare segment with a single brand JetKonnect, for enhanced brand recall," said group Chief Commercial Officer Sudheer Raghavan.

Jet Airways wants to attain a capacity of 80%. To get there, the low-fare carrier is considering merging two of its brands and increasing the number of short-haul international flights it offers. "Globally, there is a progressive transfer of capacity from full service to low-fare carriers," said Jet Airways Chief Commercial Officer Sudheer Raghavan.

India-based Jet Airways says it is filling a premium service demand by rolling out a wide-bodied Boeing 777-300ER for its Mumbai-to-Hong Kong/Newark route. "The deployment of the state-of-the-art Boeing 777-300ER aircraft ... has been necessitated due to growing traffic demand in the premium segment," said Jet Airways Chief Commercial Officer Sudheer Raghavan.

The UN's top climate official expressed doubt the summit between U.S. President Barack Obama and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, coming weeks before both leaders will join a global summit on planetary climate change in Copenhagen, will produce much dialogue about global warming. Scientists say skeptics and lobbyists for climate change and the fossil-fuel industry are putting the world in jeopardy by delaying action to prevent catastrophic climate change.

India and the U.S. have traveled a bumpy road toward completing a nuclear-cooperation deal, and India's Left party is still an obstacle. One of the problems is defining "peaceful purposes" for nuclear energy use, which currently includes isotope production for diagnostics -- but not everyone agrees on the definition.